http://forums.opensuse.org – So I just reinstalled OpenSUSE 11.2 and I went from having 20-30 mbps speed to and from my 1 tb usb ntfs external hard drive to having about 1 mbps transfer speeds now. Is there any suggestions for how I can fix this? I know it can go faster, I just need to figure out how. and would setting acpi=off at boot affect this? Opensuse 11.2 KDE 4.3 64 bit EXT4 main disk NTFS external fdisk -l Code: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00022619 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux /dev/sda2 26 281 2048000 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 282 19457 154031220 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe8900690 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS (Distributions)